USCPFA-Atlanta Chapter Annual Spring Forum

“Shanghai: Continuity and Change”
Professor Hanchao Lu of Georgia Tech

Location: Mercer University
Time: Sunday, May 2, 2010 4 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Hanchao Lu, Professor of History in the School of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is a native of Shanghai, and his research has focused on the city of his birth. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Shanghai, a board member of the China Research Center based at Mercer University, and a prize-winning author.

Professor Lu’s most recent works include Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century, winner of the Urban History Association’s Best Book Award; and Street Criers: A Cultural History of Beggars in China, which won the Association of Third World Studies Cecil B. Currey Best Book Award.

The forum will be held in Wooten Auditorium on the bottom floor of the Swilly Library, Mercer University, Atlanta, 30341 (Going north on I-85, take exit #94, right on to Chamblee Tucker Rd. to Mercer University Drive. Turn right and follow signs to library parking).

Co-sponsors are US-China Peoples Friendship Association-Atlanta and the China Research Center.